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If you are looking for healthy, fresh food, grown locally there are
more options than ever before. This website helps you to find the
type of farm market you're seeking, in your own local area; whether it
is a farm stand, a farm's market, sold from the farm house or just a roadside stand;
as long as it is fresh and locally produced. You can find
farm markets that grow local, grow organically, offer a sustainable
agriculture or the type of fruit, vegetables and other produce you want.

Our listings come from a variety of sources: state agriculture
departments, consumers writing in to recommend a market or farm stand, and
the farmer's themselves. We update and add listings every day. Since this
website just went live in March 2009, we're adding listings at a
ferocious pace! It should take us a few months to get up to a fairly
complete set of listings. Of course, we're looking for more farm
markets to add, so we welcome your recommendations! !
Customers
can recommend a farm here and
farmers can add (or update/correct) their own farm's listing by clicking
here!

Our sister website, PickYourOwn.org has
crop calendars for each local area to tell you what is
available to pick throughout the year and
really easy illustrated directions
to show you how to make jam, jelly, salsa, pickles, spaghetti
sauce, applesauce, apple butter and 150 other recipes with step by
step step directions to can, freeze, dry or preserve the harvest.

How to find a good, real local farmer's market

It's quite simple! Start by clicking the "Start here" button (at
the top of every page or on the left menu). You then select your local
area (country, state/province) and then region/county or local
metropolitan area. Just scroll down the page that appears, to see
farm markets listed by county.

Items of special interest, such as organic foods, foods grown
locally, special events are highlighted in colors to make them
stand out.

The search engine (see the button at the top of each page)
can be helpful, too.

Note: we don't consider large commercial "big box" food store chains like
Whole Foods to be real farmer's markets, even if they include that in their
name.

What are the advantages of shopping at a local
farmer's market?

save gas, which means saving money, and create less less pollution
in your drive,

pollute less, as the food does not need to be transported from a
distance,

eat fresher food, with higher vitamin levels, as less time
passes from harvesting to purchasing,

eat tastier food; again, as less time passes from harvesting to
purchasing,

eat healthier food: since it does not need to be shipped, and it
will be purchased sooner, less (or none) fungicides are needed.

Shopping at a genuine farmer's market means you'll be closer to the
source of your food, get to know the farms, the farmers, the people who
produce the food that you eat, and put into your family's bodies. They
are more likely to listen to your needs and be socially responsible, than a
giant ag farm in a foreign country.

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